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Abercraf market report SA9, Swansea
The standing SA9 (Abercraf) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,975 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SA9 (Swansea) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SA9 (Swansea) is £160,000, from 56 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £189,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,910 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,975 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SA9 is a postcode district covering Abercraf, Cefnbrynbrain, Cwmllynfell in Swansea. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SA9 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What SA9 homes really sell for
The SA9 median stands at £160,000 for 2026, built from 56 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £189,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in SA9
The last five years of sales put SA9 at roughly £1,910 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SA9 runs 44% below it.
SA9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 198 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 215 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 185 |
| 2022 | £157,200 | £184,335 | 208 |
| 2021 | £132,500 | £167,762 | 234 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 163 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 200 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 194 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 197 |
| 2016 | £95,000 | £132,906 | 192 |
| 2015 | £107,000 | £151,191 | 208 |
| 2014 | £96,500 | £136,902 | 210 |
| 2013 | £92,800 | £133,530 | 150 |
| 2012 | £93,000 | £136,884 | 172 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 172 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 162 |
| 2009 | £97,000 | £155,928 | 145 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 134 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 219 |
| 2006 | £99,000 | £171,851 | 223 |
| 2005 | £86,000 | £153,045 | 197 |
| 2004 | £72,200 | £131,129 | 238 |
| 2003 | £55,000 | £101,323 | 227 |
| 2002 | £41,500 | £78,082 | 275 |
| 2001 | £38,200 | £73,438 | 176 |
| 2000 | £34,000 | £66,725 | 177 |
| 1999 | £34,500 | £68,757 | 181 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 173 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 195 |
| 1996 | £28,000 | £59,051 | 162 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical SA9 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 145%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SA9 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−11.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.9% | −8.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. In 2014, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £150,000 against £52,200 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SA9
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £257,000 | 19 | 1,678 |
| Semi-detached | £138,300 | 18 | 2,145 |
| Terraced | £153,000 | 19 | 2,084 |
| Flats | £52,200 (2014) | – | 13 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SA9 recorded 135 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 217 sales a year before the financial crisis and 172 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around SA9
SA9 falls under Powys, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £620 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £461 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £951, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Powys
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£620 a month is £7,440 a year, which against the £160,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the SA9 market
This is a thin market: 135 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. In its area's price order SA9 comes 46 of 51, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: SA9 (Abercraf)
How much did a house sell for in SA9 (Abercraf)?
Are property prices falling in SA9 (Abercraf)?
Is SA9 (Abercraf) a good place to buy a house?
Are SA9 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
SA9's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SA9 sold for. The live side of the market holds 36 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 53% above the SA9 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SA9 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in SA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SA area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £225,000 | £300,000 (+33%) | £420,000 (+40%) | £518,750 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | £152,000 | £168,000 (+11%) | £190,000 (+13%) | £268,000 (+41%) | £350,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £132,500 | £130,000 (-2%) | £148,670 (+14%) | £185,000 (+24%) | £270,000 (+46%) |
| Flat | £107,500 | £145,000 (+35%) | £222,500 (+53%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SA9 ranks 14 of 51 in the SA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SA9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA9 1 | £166,000 | 24 |
| SA9 2 | £156,500 | 32 |
How SA9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SA area, and SA9 itself, which ranks 46 of 51 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SA42 | £345,000 | -6% |
| SA3 | £342,500 | +0% |
| SA36 | £316,200 | +44% |
| SA41 | £300,000 | +40% |
| SA69 | £295,200 | -5% |
| SA39 | £295,000 | +56% |
| SA32 | £292,500 | -2% |
| SA63 | £290,000 | +3% |
| SA45 | £289,000 | +9% |
| SA67 | £288,500 | +22% |
| SA62 | £275,000 | +10% |
| SA68 | £270,000 | +15% |
| SA35 | £268,500 | +21% |
| SA34 | £268,000 | +3% |
| SA19 | £265,800 | +13% |
| SA33 | £263,500 | +12% |
| SA40 | £250,000 | +49% |
| SA44 | £246,800 | +7% |
| SA2 | £240,000 | +6% |
| SA46 | £238,000 | +6% |
| SA38 | £235,000 | -15% |
| SA37 | £230,000 | -26% |
| SA70 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SA9 (this report) | £160,000 | +21% |
Selling a home in SA9? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SA9, open the average prices map and zoom from the SA9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SA9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SA9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SA9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.